Continuing migration

Briones’ defense of the government pay of teachers was a response to a commentary that little attention was given to teachers who had been unaccounted for since Islamic State-inspired terrorists from the Maute group laid siege to Marawi City on May 23.

According to her, the challenge facing the Department of Education now was not the pay of teachers but the continuing migration of private school teachers to the public school system.

“One wonders why is there migration if their pay is measly and inadequate,” she said.
On the reported 175 missing teachers in Marawi, Marjuni Maddi, assistant secretary for academics of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said authorities were actively trying to track them down.